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Do you know what you don’t know?https://melissabishop.blog/2018/12/15/do-you-know-what-you-dont-know/
https://melissabishop.blog/2018/12/15/do-you-know-what-you-dont-know/#respondSat, 15 Dec 2018 14:26:10 +0000http://melissabishop.blog/?p=6700Continue reading Do you know what you don’t know?]]>When I was in school, I never studied something if I thought I already knew about the subject. I also was shocked when my teachers would ask me, ‘Why didn’t you ask questions?’. The later had nothing to do with the former. I just never knew what questions to ask. If the topic was new, how am I supposed to know what I don’t know? What questions am I supposed to ask when I am unfamiliar with a topic?
Chinese herbs. Photo from Wikimedia commons.

This way of thinking is prevalent in our western society where pharmaceutical companies rule medicine and how people are treated.

Mark Twain said, ‘It is easier to trick people than to tell them they have been tricked.’.

As an herbalist, I run into this constantly. Tell people that you use garlic and oregano to heal yourself from strep throat; that it works better than antibiotics, and you are looked at as if you were a three-eyed crow. It works better than antibiotics because your good gut flora is not destroyed using natural remedies such as garlic and oregano but it is destroyed using antibiotics.

People don’t know what they don’t know because ‘alternative modern medicine’ has taken over traditional medicine. People don’t know what to ask their doctor’s because of fear and misunderstanding about natural ways to heal the body. Therefore, they accept the dangerous recommendations given to them by their doctors and end up worse than when they started.

As I look around me these days, I see people I love, people who believe in the sanctity of modern medicine, withering away and dying. There are natural remedies all around us ready to heal us but they are ignored. Why? Well, you just do not see many commercials out there for natural remedies, but we are constantly being bombarded by commercials from the pharmaceutical companies.

People die every year from diabetes because they cannot afford insulin. This almost happened to my husband. Greed is what kills people who cannot afford their meds. Well… greed and a lack of knowledge. Greedy pharmaceutical companies increase the cost of meds beyond the reach of most people. Most people believe their doctors when they tell them nutrition cannot heal them and to go on meds.

Nutrition can heal diabetes. Is it difficult to eat right to heal yourself? It can be.

Processed food has been engineered to taste as good as possible so that we will buy more. If you doubt me, take a taste of a Chicken in a Biskit cracker. Those things hit the bullseye when it comes to the ‘bliss point’. The bliss point is what food manufacturers call the ‘perfect storm’ of sugar, salt, spices, and chemicals to make you come back for more of what you just ate. Food is manufactured to cause addiction. We have a ‘war on drugs’ to try and control the deaths that occur from street drugs (30k per year) but 300k people die each year because of chemicals pushed on them by their doctors, manufactured by legal ‘drug lords’ or pharmaceutical companies because ‘drug lord’ has such a nasty ring to it. We are concerned about opioid addiction but completely ignore food addiction which is also created for the purpose of making money. We are a nation of contradictions and hypocrisy.

Up to 24,000 people will lose their eyesight in a year because of type 2 diabetes. Almost 100,000 people will die because of diabetes. Insulin cannot cure diabetes but it has been proven that the right diet can do the job.

Eating meat is not cheap but it can be done if you are willing to give up some things. What do you spend your money on that is really not a necessity? Let’s take a look at where you can weed out extra expenses so that you can eat meat and not worry about going blind, becoming impotent (men), having limbs amputated, or dying.

Entertainment: A movie ticket can cost up to, and over, $15.00 depending on where you go and what you see. Add up how many times per month you go out to see a movie. Add up snack expenses too while you’re at it. I wait for movies to come out on video and then rent them for free from the library. I am behind the rest of the nation on current movie news but here’s the thing; it’s JUST a movie. It will be forgotten soon. Seeing a movie in a theater when it is first released is not a necessity. Eyesight is.

Cable t.v. is about $70.00+ per month depending on what additional packages you buy. Drop cable. Go to the library and checkout a book to read, join a board gamers’ club- or start a club of your own. Get a new hobby like walking; two birds one stone. Walking helps to reduce your glucose levels, if you charge money to walk people’s dogs… you’re making money AND getting healthy. Win win!

Depending on how many times you go to a movie in a month and your cable bill, we are already at about $100.00 per month which can go toward buying meat. Doing great! Start brewing your coffee at home and taking it with you in a thermos can add $50.00-$500.00 to your meat budget per month depending on how large a coffee monkey you have on your back.

Are you beginning to see how you CAN afford to eat healthy? Let’s keep going.

How much do you spend each month keeping up with fashion trends? Learn how to thrift shop or shop sales. Go through your closet and have a ‘spot sale’. Invite friends and family over to buy clothes you have not worn or know you will not wear. Tuck the money away for future meat purchases and donate to charity the clothes that were not purchased.

It is likely you have too much stuff in your home or apartment. Whatever is covered in dust is what you sell. Obviously if you used it it would be clean. Have a garage/patio/porch ect. sale. Wherever you have a flat, outdoor space is where you set up your sales stand. Tuck the money away for food.

You can do this. You have more money than you think. Eating healthy is easier, and less expensive, than living with chronic disease.

]]>https://melissabishop.blog/2018/12/15/do-you-know-what-you-dont-know/feed/0hospitality301File:Chineseherbjars.jpg - Wikimedia CommonsWhat do we do with mushrooms?https://melissabishop.blog/2018/12/13/what-do-we-do-with-mushrooms/
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Just because I love botanical art does not mean I am a botanist. The Denver School of Botanical Art offers a class on Botany for the Botanical Artist because few botanical artists know anything about plants. Imagine my surprise when the other day I was looking at another botanical artist’s website and read something she wrote about mushrooms not being part of the plant kingdom, but she loved drawing mushrooms no matter their classification.

Excuse me? Mushrooms do not belong in the plant kingdom? How long has this been going on? LINK to more information.

According to a Cliffnotes website: ‘Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants.’. They are more like crustaceans. Since fungi are not plants… should ethical vegans eat mushrooms, and yeasts? For all we know we’re eating an intelligent sentient life form.

Please don’t eat my brother!

I personally love to eat mushrooms.

Photo source; commons wikimedia.

I think they are beautiful. Like meat, they are one of the few things I can eat without getting sick. Now I have a better idea as to why they are easier to digest than plants… because they are not plants.

When eating mushrooms, do not pick your own unless you have been properly trained in the identification of mushrooms. Be sure to clean and cook all mushrooms before consuming. For more Vitamin D in your mushrooms before eating them, set them in the sun for up to 6 hours. They will absorb more vit D and be even better for you.

You’re richer than you know and you can give more than you are… IF you are giving. Many people in America think they don’t make enough money to help others in need. They think that philanthropy is a rich person’s game. It is not.

From the Salvation Army Red kettle drive to your local food bank, now is a great time to give.

You could give up buying one cup of coffee per week (or for the rest of December) make it at home and use a travel mug. If you began at the beginning of Christmas and donated $4.00 per week for the month that would be $16.00. If you gave up buying coffee out altogether, assuming one coffee per day at $4.00) you would donate $124.00 for the month of December. Either way you are making a difference. I think some people think that because they cannot donate large amounts, they may as well not even give at all.

Have you ever heard the phrase; every drop fills the bucket? I know from personal experience (My roof is leaking like crazy these days.) it does not take long for a drip to fill a 5 gallon Homer Bucket from Home Depot. Your $16.00, or $4.00 makes a difference. Stop complaining about how much or how little rich people give to the poor and start giving what you can.

When I started attending the Orthodox Christian Church I heard a beautiful saying; ‘We don’t look at other people’s plates to see how much they have, but to see if anything is needed.’ See a need and do what you can to fill it.

The reason why I am writing about this today is because of something I saw on Twitter.

One of the richest people in India’s daughter is getting married. When the story broke, and people saw how much was being spent, and on what, the assumptions and judgemental comments started flowing like brown water.

“Give that money to the poor!’ Just because some people have what YOU consider to be a large amount of money, and you found out some information about how it is being spent, does not give you the right to pass judgement and tell this man, or any other person with more more money than you, how and where to spend THEIR money.

The reason why I’m telling YOU to give and donate is because you think, erroneously, that you get to tell rich people how to give away, and spend, their money. You do not know how much this man may already give to charities. You are just assuming that because he is spending money on his daughter’s wedding that he does NOT give and that for some reason, while you are allowed to waste money buying coffee, or your lunch, out instead of making it at home, he is not allowed to spend his money… HIS money that he earned however he likes?

You my dears are hypocrites.

Yes, it IS vulgar to spend $16,000.00 on a handbag, or hundreds of dollars on individual wedding invitations, but to someone for whom that $5.00 you spent for coffee would buy a meal, would not THAT also be considered vulgar? It’s not the amount we spend or the things we buy that corrupts us. It is the judgements we pass along to other people and how they live their lives that corrupts us. to what end do we judge others? To make ourselves feel better about how we live our lives?

Every socioeconomic group has their sacred cows. The things on which they justify spending their money. For you, it is perfectly ok to spend money eating out at fast food restaurants and coffee kiosks. To someone with larger bank balances those things may seem like a waste of money. All money adds up and can be put to work making more money. Still one man’s luxury is another man’s indulgence, and another man’s oh hell no. As in ‘Oh hell no would I EVER spend money on THAT!’.

When I was younger, I could not image paying someone to clean my house. There was a woman in my office who had paid maid service. I was VERY judgemental about it. I wish I could find her and apologize. Not that it is likely she remembers after all of these years but still… it was none of my business. Just as it is none of my business, or yours, who eats meat, who does not, who spends how much on what and why. None of it matters.

On Saturday, hubby and I were out running errands. I had a pretty good discount on gas saved up (.80 off per gallon) and we set out to use it in his big Yukon XL after we went to the post office. On the way to the gas station, 8 miles from our house… I KNOW but paying $1.65 per gallon for gas is worth the trip, we stopped at one of our favorite burger joints and ordered. It was delish! I’m not supposed to have tomatoes but I did. BBQ sauce on the burger then I dipped the burger in ketchup… my favorite condiment. Back when I ate beef stew I would put ketchup IN my stew. Fantastic.

Later that night, about 11:30 or so, the stomach cramps began. The pain was almost blinding. All night long and into the morning it lasted. Everything I ate on Sunday well… I will not go into details. People talk about renting beer. How about renting everything you eat for 24 hours?

Hubby was fine. But, he was fine last time we ate at a different restaurant after which I became so ill he almost took me to the ER. Was I ill because it was legit food poisoning form this restaurant? Was it because I ate carbs after eating meat all week?

One thing is for sure, I’m re-thinking cheat days. Are they really a reward after a week of eating clean? Are they more ‘poison days’ than cheat days? The Rock seems to be able to handle his cheat days A-ok with no nasty after effects. I do not know his stomach strength. It may be next level. I’ve seen pics of what he eats on cheat days. If I could eat all of that I totally would.

Photo from leanitup.com

I’d even turn it into a, ‘Keep up with the Rock’ cheat day event in my house. However, I do have a history of intense IBS. I always do better eating meat. then I get cocky because eating meat makes me feel so good. I think I can eat anything, then I do… then I suffer.

No more cheat days for me. If you have been having issue son cheat days perhaps it is time for you to also give them up?

]]>https://melissabishop.blog/2018/12/10/beware-cheat-days/feed/0hospitality301File:Poker chips 2.jpg - Wikimedia CommonsThe Rock Is A Motivational Wizard; Here Are 8 Powerful Bombs Of Motivation From His Instagram ...File:Baby Cheetah Eating Meat.JPG - Wikimedia CommonsWhat is lost with sola scripturahttps://melissabishop.blog/2018/12/06/what-is-lost-with-sola-scriptura/
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Pretty much, the only story most Christians… most Protestant Christians hear about the Apostle Thomas is how he doubted the resurrection of Christ and said he would not believe until he had seen Christ’s wounds and stuck his fingers into them as proof. He will always be known as ‘Doubting Thomas’ in all of Protestantism.

Last night, however, in catecumen class, we were treated to a story by our parish priest about Thomas that I had never before heard. Saint Thomas built a church in India. That’s right… a CHURCH … in INDIA! And how he did it is the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time.

Now, when I say he built a church, I’m not saying a physical building. I’m talking about the body of Christ. We, the congregation, are the church. The buildings in which we worship are temples.

Thomas went to India. He asked the Lord what he would be doing when he got there and the Lord replied, ‘You will be an architect.’, Thomas protested saying he didn’t know anything about building. When he arrived, the local prince was looking for an architect to build his palace. Thomas said he would do it. The prince gave him money to get started and then the prince left. Thomas took the money and gave it to the poor telling them to pray for their prince. The prince inquired as to the progress of his palace. Thomas told him he needed more money and the prince gave it to him. Again, Thomas gave away the money to the poor asking them to pray for their prince. The prince arrived one day to check on the progress of his palace. Upon learning that nothing had been done and the money given to the poor, he had Thomas put into prison. Shortly thereafter, the prince’s brother died and went to heaven. While he was there he saw a magnificent palace. He asked God, ‘Whose palace is that?’.

‘Your brother’s palace that Thomas built.’.

The man then said, ‘Please send me back so that I may tell my brother what I have seen.’.

The Lord sent him back and he told his brother all that he had seen in heaven and implored him to release Thomas from prison. Thomas HAD built a magnificent palace for the prince, it just was not here on earth.

Is that not something much better to be remembered for than being doubtful of Jesus’ resurrection? This is something you will not find in scripture but does that make it any less valid than if it had ended up in the canon? No. But we miss out on such things by only reading our bibles, or modern studies instead of learning about those who where Christians before us.

I have two points of thought for you.

If you are a Protestant and you read ‘Christian’ books other than your bible, why do you read those books but fear reading uncanonized gospels? Being part of the canon does not make one gospel more accurate than another nor does it mean one gospel is wrong or dangerous to read. Think about it. You read books by ‘Christian Authors’; Joel Olsteen, Joyce Meyers, Beth Moor, etc., but reading a book written by someone who we Orthodox Christians refer to as, ‘ancient fathers’ is off putting to you… even scary. That ‘Circle Maker’ book that was so popular a few years ago is flat out witchcraft. How many of you have read it? How many of you have read; 50 Shade of Grey for crying out loud? But you think reading about Christian saints is wrong? I humbly offer to you your first (maybe your first) Orthodox Christian book to read: Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnika. It might make you wonder, ‘If this is what it means to be a Christian then what have I been doing so far as a Christian?’. It is not a self-help book that teaches you how to; ‘Think and Grow Rich’ or how to, ‘Live Your Best Life Now’. It is a book that deals with difficult aspects of living a Christian life like; how to react when people offend you. How to pray for your neighbor and your community.

If you have been unhappy attending your church. If you have been wandering from church to church, by not look up your local Orthodox church and attend 5-10 services? Not just the Sunday morning liturgy, but the night time prayers on Wednesday & Saturday and drop in on a catechumen class, or 2… or 10. You will learn so much about Christianity. I grew up in church. I read my bible. I went to Sunday school and bible studies. I did studies by; Joyce Meyers, Beth Moore, and Priscilla Shirer. I even watched the movie, ‘The War Room’. Even when I was a Protestant I though tit was watered down and trite. A movie filled with cliches.

Modern Christianity, I think, has become rife with sound bites. Where is the meat and potatoes I’d heard so much about but never experienced for myself? I never found it until I started attending the Orthodox Christian church.

Please, forgive me if anything I have said offends you. It is not my intent to hurt people but that does not mean that it does not happen. I just remember how I felt searching and struggling in my Christianity for so long. How disappointed I became as I saw it become more commercialized and worldly.

I am debating about whether or not to start a vlog series about coming to Orthodoxy. I’m praying about it.

If you have been struggling with your Christian faith, if what you read in your bible does not align with what you are hearing from the pulpit or seeing on stage, take heart. don’t give up on Christianity. The Orthodox church is the same as it’s ever been. The same as what we read in the book of Acts. Give it a go and see what happens. But give it an honest go. Don’t just dabble around with it. Don’t just go once or twice and blow it off because you have preconceived ideas about it or because of some misinformation you read about it on the Internet.

In your search for information about how to eat on the carnivore diet, and for anecdotal stories of those who have already tried it, you will inevitably run into fakes, frauds and just plain liars. There are those who cannot leave other people to their God-given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (that’s what ‘endowed by our Creator means… GOD given). There is always going to be someone who wants to muddy the waters, stir up trouble, tell you you are not doing life right and in general control, control, control.

I run into people’s ‘personal stories’ regarding trying paleo, keto and carnivore & after doing nutritional research for the last 30 years. it’s pretty easy to spot a fake.

I have tried different diets and failed miserably. I sometimes was able to go a full week on it, many times only a few days. The Ducan diet was one where I was able to do it for a full week. I started experiencing heart burn and stopped doing it. It worked for me as far as losing weight. I would recommend it to other people because maybe they do not have the same issues I do when it comes to heartburn. I had the same symptoms of heartburn when I went vegan but also experienced constipation, severe gas and inflammation. The inflammation in my hands was so bad I would wake up with an intense burning sensation in them in the middle of the night. When I say intense I mean that I would wake up in screaming pain. Super fun for my husband. He never complains though. I love that guy! I went on a self guided journey for healing due to many autoimmune symptoms that were ruining my life including a few near death experiences.

I would never recommend a vegan diet to anyone. I am a certified herbalist who has intensively studied nutrition. Veganism is the worst thing you can do to your body aside from the Standard American diet with its Death Pyramid of intensive eating of grains. No thanks. I don’t like ‘feed-lot’ eating.

Feed-lot eating is what is done to animals before they are slaughtered. That’s how puffed cheese snacks were invented. It started out as pig feed. Add some tasty cheese flavoring and you have a beloved snack with an adorable ‘hip-cat’ wearing sunglasses, as a promoter.

Whenever I see someone who claims to have tried paleo or carnivore for a week and then complains about all the meat they are eating I have to wonder about their true motive.

When you go on an all meat or heavy meat diet, your body does go through some changes. When you stop eating plants, your body begins to release all of those toxins from the plants you ate. Toxins that were stored in your fat cells making you sick.

The constant slow release of those toxins over the years made you ill gradually. Some even chalk this up to ‘old age’. When you go on a carnivore diet, you lode weight rapidly. Those toxins no longer have a place to rest. As they are released you feel awful. Taking hot showers and drinking water helps to eliminate those toxins. Learn how to Dry Brush your skin. Then take that hot shower right after. When you get out of the shower drink a glass of water and rest.

If you are a person who has eaten a diet high in plant matter, you are going to have a rough go of it when you first start out eating carnivore. Stick with it. Give it at least 30-45 days to get past the detox phase and to feel the health benefits that come with changing your diet is such a drastic manner.

You may experience an increase in feeling tired. Your brain fog may increase for a few days as your body deals with an increased release of toxins. You may experience intestinal distress as whatever food was impacted against the walls of your intestines releases and is flushed out of your body. All of these things are part of the detox process but are in no way being caused because you’re ‘eating too much meat’.

I am not going to tell you how much meat to eat. You must learn how to listen to your body. Except for sugar and carbs, if your body is graving something eat it. Eggs/raw eggs? Eat them if your body is craving them. Some people do better eating all red meat. Some eat a variety of meat. Do what your body tells you to do as long as it lines up with eating carnivore. A Big Mac is not carnivore even if you remove everything but the bun. Plus, you might be tempted to eat the whole thing so as not to waste food. Avoid all fast food.

If you can’t figure out what to eat go to the grocery store and buy a rotisserie chicken. Buy some steaks and fry them in a pan inside your home.

Buy the bloodiest, juiciest roast beef at your deli. Have them slice it thin. Pack it for your lunch.

Get two bowls and an 18 pack of cage free eggs. Practice separating the yellow from the white. Toss the white or clear part and only eat the yellow part of the egg.

Experiment. Just don’t give up because someone said they tried it for a week and their body rejected eating meat. That’s just a bunch of garbage.

]]>https://melissabishop.blog/2018/12/06/beware-imposters/feed/0hospitality301S Sheep In Wolves Clothing Quotes. QuotesGramJeremy Corbyn, unlike vegan Kerry McCarthy, won’t harangue you to stop eating meat – The Right ...Â» Dry Skin Brushing Beauty Blog | Makeup | Esthetics ...It’s not a fadhttps://melissabishop.blog/2018/12/05/its-not-a-fad/
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One commonly referenced ‘meat eater’ is Owsley Stanley, also known as, ‘The Bear’. He was the sound man for the band, The Grateful Dead. He died in a car accident in 2011. Here is a LINK to some of his words of wisdom about eating all meat.

]]>hospitality301juicyribsGaining weight is NOT normalhttps://melissabishop.blog/2018/12/04/gaining-weight-is-not-normal/
https://melissabishop.blog/2018/12/04/gaining-weight-is-not-normal/#commentsTue, 04 Dec 2018 11:07:12 +0000http://melissabishop.blog/?p=6676Continue reading Gaining weight is NOT normal]]>One of the most profound things I’ve ever read was from a book on how to live the paleo way. The author wrote; ‘You’re not sick because you are fat. You are fat because you are sick.’. I sat there for a few minutes absorbing his words.

Have you ever had a wound that swelled up before it was healed? A scratch perhaps? Have your eyes ever become swollen due to irritants? Your body is surrounding the unwell area in an attempt to heal it, and to keep the infection, or inflammation from spreading. Have you ever noticed how some people we assume are ‘fat’ are not ‘fat’ all over? These people might be what we call, ‘pot bellied’. Their guts are inflamed, impacted, or both. Whatever they are eating is not only not working for them, it is killing them slowly.

Fat people do not get diabetes because they are fat. In fact, diabetes is not a disease of obesity. Halley Berry has diabetes. Does she look obese? She’s not alone. Fast food does not singularly cause diabetes although it does contribute to higher glucose levels in the blood. Since meat does no contain carbs or sugar, where does the glucose come from? Think about it. It is NOT derived from meat unless sugar or a form of carbohydrate has been added to the meat. Also, diabetes was around as far back as when. Socrates walked the earth. He ‘discovered’ it by drinking the urine of his patients. There were no burger joints back then… but there was grain, and lots of it.

Our society is cruel. We make food addictive. Some people cannot handle it. Those excitotoxins work really well on them. They then are diagnosed with diseases and a lack of self discipline is to blame. ‘if only you had more discipline and self control you would not be sick and fat.’. These words come from well meaning people but they are hollow and unhelpful. There are just as useless as ,’Everything in moderation.’. Stop talking, please.

Stop trying to force people onto an unhealthy vegan diet. Let people eat meat without condemnation. Some people just love to feel superior to others. Veganism is the new means by which people are shaming other people. I for one will not be shamed into eating in a manner I know is unhealthy for me and does not work.

If you do decide to go full on carnivore, the best advice I can give you is to keep it to yourself. You will want to share it with your friends and family because you love and care about them. Don’t do it. Wait until you have been on it a year and then, maybe, tell them what you did to look so fabulous. Even sick and fat people will try to give you dieting advice. They don’t get it that if what they were trying to ‘sell’ worked, they would be healthy. THAT is how effective the brainwashing has become.

Begin your journey to new health by cleaning out your pantry and cupboards of ALL grains, beans and legumes. Donate unopened items to a food kitchen or food pantry or a neighbor. Same with all unused, and in good condition, fruits and vegetables. Make room in your freezer for all of the meat you will be buying. Don’t try and find the leanest cuts of meat or only eat white meat chicken. Animal fat is good for you. I’ll repeat that; ANIMAL FAT IS GOOD FOR YOU! I had a steak last night for dinner. They were on sale 2 for one at the grocery store. NY strip steak bone-in. There were two types of fat on these steaks (hubby had one too) there was the soft, juicy tasty fat, and something harder and unchewable. That hard fat I threw away but the juicy fat I ate.

This morning for breakfast, I cooked up some scrambled eggs with a bit of cheese, and we each had four sausage links. Hubby added salsa and avocado to his plate. I did not. For his lunch, I will cook up more meat for him but add to his lunch bag cottage cheese and a bit of coleslaw. My husband loves vegetables. While no one NEEDS to consume vegetables, what he is eating is not big deal. A bit of cabbage, some tomatoes, etc. are not highly detrimental to the way he is eating. He is not eating chips with his salsa. He is not having hash browns with his eggs. These changes are minor on our plates (you really CAN live without hash browns smothered in ketchup) but major to our health. Ketchup is full of sugar and so are potatoes. Potatoes are full of toxins that contribute to gout and arthritis. No one needs to eat a potato.

Are you going to do it? Are you going to switchover to a carnivore diet? If you do, you will need to do it longer than a week to see proper results. You may experience digestive issues because eating meat heals you. Your body will begin to release the toxins it has stored up from eating plants. You may feel crummy at first. Keep eating only meat, eggs, and raw dairy if you can find it. Drink your water to help flush out toxins. Drink a mild detox tea such as Dandelion root (Only when you will not be out in public!) to help your body eliminate plant toxins. Be sure to hydrate and only drink one mug of tea (one tea bag) per week. As soon as you’re feeling better, stop drinking the tea. I would not go longer than a week or two on any detox tea.

Today is my 14 year wedding anniversary. I am giving myself the gift of good health. I am beginning my carnivore diet full on this time. No mucking about.

It did not take long for my attempts at eating vegan for the Nativity Fast to go awry. The plant toxins quickly built up in my system and messed me up five ways from Sunday.

Back to meat I go. Back tot he only way of eating that never messed me up or let me down. Thank you meat for being there for me.

The hyperbole uttered by vegans to scare people into veganism is increasing. My decision to attempt veganism had nothing to do with any of their attempts at fearmongering. It was an attempt solely based on religious teachings of the Orthodox Christian church.

As my husband says, I’ll need to find another way to fast. I think that a strict, no carb (including sugars) diet is a fast of its own. Not in the traditions of the church but still…

If you are in need of a drastic change in your diet, try the carnivore diet. Ignore the vegan dogma. It’s all misinformation, misdirection and lies anyway.

Eat meat… it heals.

Here is a LINK to an article that might help you get started by answering common questions asked by people curious about an all meat diet.